RECORD OF KANSAS COACHES

The inventor of Basketball, Dr. James Naismith, joined the
KU faculty in 1898, and fielded the first Jayhawk team in 1898-99.Since then, KU has a 101 year record of 1,943wins and 793 losses, and
overall percentage of 71.3%.Only North Carolina and Kentucky have won more games than Kansas.Former KU players Dean Smith and Adolph Rupp helped coach those teams to
their record highs.

Until Bill
Self, Roy Williams was KU’s all-time winningest coach,
percentage-wise, with 80.5%.Phog Allen, of course, leads in total wins with 590, an average of over
15 per season in an era when the average season was only 20 games.W.O. Hamilton’s first team went 18-1, for KU’s best season
percent-wise, followed by his 1913-14 team which went 17-1.

Ironically, Naismith is the only KU coach to have a losing
record.

In 1993, Mike Lopresti of the Gannett News Service allowed that Kansas would
"fire him now, peach basket and all." Get Real, Mike!

Here’s some very interesting stats sent to me by
Darby Ritter, comparing the records of KU coaches after their first 82
games, which Bill Self reached after the ISU game. It's amazing how
similar they are.